Agencies

So you can make proper ads in lockdown: WhatsApp has had a pretty good ‘World War C’ even though its owner Facebook has not. Here’s AlmapBBDO in Brazil showing us that you can conduct a lovely affair – all on ...

Heaven knows what’s going to happen to America as this election year unfolds. Conservative group The Lincoln Project (after Abraham) has entered the lists again against Donald Trump with a new film ‘War zone’ hammering the president for his response ...

Mother’s Singapore shop, The Secret Little Agency, has jumped into Animal Crossing (11 million players) with its client, Deliveroo, to make in-game food deliveries. The cheerful drivers wear facemasks and make socially distanced drop-offs, and some players will find a ...

Mobile brand Orange (it still exists in France) is much missed in the UK, absorbed into the great blob of EE. But its 1980s launch was an example of WCRS at its best and later it moved its efforts to ...

Research firm Forrester is predicting that US agencies will lose 52,000 jobs through 2021, 35,167 in 2020 and 16,758 in 2021 to be precise. Creative agencies will be hit hardest (down 14%) with digital and media agencies down seven per ...

WPP’s Mark Read has made arguably the strongest statement of intent among agency big bosses about George Floyd, promising, among other things, an “Inclusion Council” to help make the organisation more diverse. Read said, in a Linkedin post: “the global ...

Headhunting firm Grace Blue has set up a free-to-use online platform called Transition, designed to help people from the advertising, media and marketing industries who have lost their jobs during the Covid-19 crisis. Transition launches with job listings from Amazon, ...

As most of us have come to acknowledge, there are some things that just can’t be recreated online. Festivals will be sorely missed over the summer of the pandemic, but Anomaly has made an attempt to stir up a bit ...

Italy has suffered more than most from Covid-19 (a European field where Britain, alas, leads) but one of its quintessential brands is doing its best to cheer us up. Vespa is running an engaging new ’50s-style global poster campaign through ...